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Institutional Research: First-time Bachelor's Cohort Retention Rates

Full-time, first-time bachelor's cohort retention:

Full-time, first-time Fall 2009 bachelor's cohort		1,632
Exclusions from the cohort		1
Adjusted cohort		1,631
Students from Fall 2009 cohort still enrolled as of Fall 2010		1,334
Full-time, first-time Fall 2009 bachelor's cohort retention rate		82%

Part-time, first-time bachelor's cohort retention:

Part-time, first-time Fall 2009 bachelor's cohort		32
Exclusions from the cohort		0
Adjusted cohort		32
Students from Fall 2009 cohort still enrolled as of Fall 2010		21
Part-time, first-time bachelor's cohort retention rate		66%

Graduation disaggregated by gender and ethnicity:

Cohort year 2003

	Revised cohort	Total exclusions	Completed bachelor's degree in 4 or less years	Completed bachelor's degree in 5 or less years	Completed bachelor's degree in 6 or less years	4-year graduation rate %	5-year graduation rate %	6-year graduation rate %
Men
Hispanic/Latino	8	0	1	4	5	13	50	63
American Indian or Alaska Native	1	0	1	1	1	100	100	100
Asian	7	0	4	4	4	57	57	57
Black or African American	29	0	5	8	13	17	28	45
Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander	0	0	0	0	0
White	184	0	93	123	126	51	67	68
Two or more races	0	0	0	0	0
Nonresident alien	17	0	6	9	10	35	53	59
Race and ethnicity unknown	227	0	118	144	149	52	63	66
Total men	473	0	228	293	308	48	62	65

Women
Hispanic/Latino	14	0	9	9	9	64	64	64
American Indian or Alaska Native	0	0	0	0	0
Asian	11	0	5	5	5	45	45	45
Black or African American	28	0	18	21	22	64	75	79
Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander	0	0	0	0	0
White	241	0	124	151	155	51	63	64
Two or more races	1	0	0	1	1	0	100	100
Nonresident alien	28	0	12	17	17	43	61	61
Race and ethnicity unknown	239	0	133	162	168	56	68	70
Total women	562	0	301	366	377	54	65	67

Total (Men and Women)
Hispanic/Latino	22	0	10	13	14	45	59	64
American Indian or Alaska Native	1	0	1	1	1	100	100	100
Asian	18	0	9	9	9	50	50	50
Black or African American	57	0	23	29	35	40	51	61
Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander	0	0	0	0	0
White	425	0	217	274	281	51	64	66
Two or more races	1	0	0	1	1	0	100	100
Nonresident alien	45	0	18	26	27	40	58	60
Race and ethnicity unknown	466	0	251	306	317	54	66	68
Total	1,035	0	529	659	685	51	64	66

Six-year graduation rate disaggregation by Pell Grant and Stafford Loan *

	Total sub cohort	Completed in 4 years or less	Completed in 5 years	Completed in 6 years	Total completed within 150%
Pell Grant recipients	156	65	13	7	85
Subsidized Stafford Loan recipients	470	238	54	16	308
Not receiving Pell Grant or Subsidized Stafford Loan	551	287	75	10	372

	Total sub cohort	Total completed within 150%	6-year graduation rate %
Pell Grant recipients	156	85	54
Subsidized Stafford Loan recipients	470	308	66
Not receiving Pell Grant or Subsidized Stafford Loan	551	372	68

* Data explanation
1. Definition of sub cohort:
Pell Grant recipients: full-time, first-time, degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates who entered SCAD in Fall 2003 and received a Pell Grant during the aid year 2003-04.

Subsidized Stafford Loan recipients: full-time, first-time, degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates who entered SCAD in Fall 2003 and received Subsidized Stafford Loan during the aid year 2003-04.

Not receiving a Pell Grant or Subsidized Stafford Loan: full-time, first-time, degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates who entered SCAD in Fall 2003 and did not receive a Pell Grant or Subsidized Stafford Loan during the aid year 2003-04.

2. The six-year graduation rate is calculated based only on students who graduated within six years; those who graduated after six years or who are still enrolled in the program are not included.

Recognition

Mary Taylor presents paper at annual meeting
SCAD senior survey coordinator Mary Taylor presented a paper titled "Non-disclosure options are good for your data" at the 2010 Annual Meeting of the Southern Association for Institutional Research held in New Orleans, Louisiana, Sept. 25-28.
Lowery attends weeklong research institute
Regina A. Lowery, senior coordinator of assessment, was selected to attend the National Summer Data Policy Institute sponsored by the Association for Institutional Research in 2009. The weeklong institute, held in Washington, D.C., is an intensive introduction to National Center for Educational Statistics, National Science Foundation and Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System datasets and research methodologies using large national data sources. She served as a reviewer of applicants for the 2010 program.
Yap article published by GIA Publications
Director of Institutional Assessment Ching Ching Yap’s paper titled "Investigation of the Multiple-choice Formats for Assessing Music Notation Reading," will soon be published in the "Proceedings of the 2009 Florida Symposium on Assessment in Music Education: The Practice of Assessment in Music Education: Framework, Models, and Design" by GIA Publications Inc.
Tara Pearsall presents paper and poster
Senior assessment coordinator Tara Pearsall, Ph.D., will present her paper titled "Examining the Effect of Students' Rhythm Syllable System on the Tempo Consistency Demonstrated during a Standardized Rhythm Performance Task" and poster titled "The Impact of Cognitive Complexity on Rater Accuracy in a Music Performance Assessment" at the 2010 Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, held in Denver, Colo., April 30-May 4.

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Institutional Research: First-time Bachelor's Cohort Retention Rates

Full-time, first-time bachelor's cohort retention:

Part-time, first-time bachelor's cohort retention:

Graduation disaggregated by gender and ethnicity:

Six-year graduation rate disaggregation by Pell Grant and Stafford Loan *

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